Yes, Aaron was right. I didn't state clearly. I pasted the text into the <textarea> field and the html and formatted stuff went away. The FCKeditor Ray pointed to will be helpful. --Nathan
-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is there a way to maintain formated text I'd think that it was maybe bold in a Word doc and then copy n pasted into a text area at which point it lost its formating. On 2/8/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Sometimes the original text contains formated > text such as words in bold, with bullet points, and even with url behind > it. When the text goes to the database, they are stripped away. > > How come? HTML is pure texte, database fields that can take text can > take HTML. > Who strips the code away? > > -- > _______________________________________ > REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; > See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm > (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Thanks. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231736 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54

